Fork Spring Installation

[broook]

Not sure about the CBX but I put "Progressive Suspension" springs in my V-Max last year and the instructions say either way does not make any difference.

[Don #6141]

$1K for your 'service' George . . . . and you're too cheap to buy your own gas?

Don

[cbxtacy]

gonna use a lot of gas driving my bike to NC from CA. If you live inbetween, I'll stop off on my way and let you buy me dinner also .

[alimey4u2]

Progressive wound springs are installed w/ the tighter coils to the top because that's the heavy end, thus less unsprung weight. Or, at least that's the theory. I doubt I could tell the difference on a CBX.

I like this analogy, it's the reluctance of mass to undergo inertial changes that make this ring true...

Easier for a light ball to bounce than a heavy one....

[EMS]

Lets get real anal here:

I guess my theory wasn't that anal after all...

[Tom Neimeyer]

I would install them one up and one down and swap position every 3,471 miles so they would wear evenly.

The worst you could be is 50% wrong.

But I don't know much about suspension components.

George,
What say we make several POGO sticks out of some old forks and have a POGO stick race at the next rally?

[Rick Pope]

I would install them one up and one down and swap position every 3,471 miles so they would wear evenly.

The worst you could be is 50% wrong.

But I don't know much about suspension components.

George,
What say we make several POGO sticks out of some old forks and have a POGO stick race at the next rally?

Tom, you made me laugh out loud. Vintage Daze might be a good time for that race. Perhaps as part of the CBX infield event? Or maybe late night motel lot would be more appropriate.

[Don #6141]

Lots of good theories here - Proposals which seem to indicate that both ways are best

Play it safe and mount one with the heavy end up and one with the heavy end down ;)

Don

[alimey4u2]

It is good that we laugh at ourselves at times, makes it all worth while...

[EMS]

Play it safe and mount one with the heavy end up and one with the heavy end down ;)

Don

I wonder if this would be the ideal front end set-up for a "NASCAR" bike All left turns... the right fork leg with the heavy side up and the left leg with the heavy side down

[Don #6141]

I've always thought that a NASCAR race would be a much better 'show' if they tossed a coin after the 'Gentlemen start your engines' to determine which way they would run - Clockwise or counterclockwise

Don

[Terry]

I recall an interview someone had with A J Foyt after he set a both directions closed course record with the Olds Quad 4 motor years ago. Even with his experience, he mentioned that going 'the other way' at speed was pretty hairy compared to what he'd been used to.

[EMS]

It looks like BMW solved that problem in the 70s I put new fork seals in my 1978 R100S and when I took the legs apart, I saw that the springs were wound tighter on BOTH ends

[cbxtacy]

getting back to the pogo stick race-I cheat. I'm gonna use CBR1000 forks, they're 41mm and 32" long.

[alimey4u2]

Tired of struggling with those heavy duty fork springs ? Trying to put that extra inch ( 2 inches with Hagons) without buggering up the threads on your prize alloy top nuts ? Look no further Pilgrims, here is the fix. Inquiring minds may ask WTF ?...